A collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous power of loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Sometimes the moments that make you cry
are also the moments that matter the most.


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Ishilove Please can you move to front page to garner wider view and also appreciate the work put into getting those pics. Thanks

Source: www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-most-touching-photos-ever-taken
www.emlii.com/43e74167/23-Photos-That-Completely-Shook-The-World
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waiting........

1. A vulture waits for the malnourished child
to die (1992)
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This photograph created quite a stir on the
humaneness of photographing community. The
photographer commited suicide despite being
awarded for this photo.

2. A homeless and hungry man eats off a
railway track in India

Whoa..

3. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a
priest in his last moments (1962)

4. This is a really sad picture of a Giraffe and
Polar Bear kept in captivity

5. A German soldier returns home only to find
his family no longer there - Frankfurt (1946)

6. Rwanda Massacre - A group of Hutus began
slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country
of Rwanda. The genocide left 800,000 dead.
This photo shows the bloody feet of children
attempting to escape slaughter by climbing
the walls. (1994)

7. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to console
his son (2003)
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While this Iraqi prisoner was trying to comfort his
4 year old son, the little boy was afraid to see his
father hooded and handcuffed. The army
considered his request to free his hands so he
could make his boy feel comfortable.

The German soldier touched me.

Keep it coming

8. Another memorial day filled with tears

#teary

9. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the
Harry Harding High School in the United
States . Counts was one of the first black
students admitted in the school, and she was
no longer able to stand the harassment after
4 days (1957)
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My heart is too weak to watch these photos.. I'll cry..

I must leave and never return!

10. An 83 year old browser history

11. Brothers to the end

12. 24 year-old Marine Sgt. Tyler Ziegel and and 21 year-old Rene Kline on their wedding day. She divorced him a year later. He died last year of a combination of drugs and alcohol

Ts saddening... Abeg more..

13.A well-nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during food distribution at a humanitarian aid feeding center in Ajiep, Sudan in 1998

14. An 8-year-old died from head injury, but her donated organs bettered 4 lives. The doctors are bowing to thank her for her kidney, liver, cornea, etc.

15. A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

16. A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.

17. The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: AfricanAmerican athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlosraise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of their protest.
Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.

18. A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.

19. A North Korean man waves his hand as a South
Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon
meeting during inter-Korean temporary family
reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31,
2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.

20. A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.

Really touching story. I'm most overwhelmed by dat veteran last man standing soldier and the brothers to the end pics.

Respect to civilized Soldiers!

21. Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear.

22. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.

23. A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.